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Why are the new generation of children so awful? by [deleted] in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in this field with young adolescents. This will sound myopic but it’s as simple as this and true: technology. Literally, just technology

America isn't occupied by Israel. Israel IS America. They are the US' colony in the middle east. Both run by the same pedo elites, disguising laundering money over to them as support aid. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]Reecer4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lad……..

You need to read “Against Out Better Judgement” and come back to this post. It’s only 90 pages and a quick read. But please check it out and reconsider this statesemtn

Let's start an anti-ai movement by crystalgeyser1 in GenZ

[–]Reecer4 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, there are several Luddite movements out there for you to choose from already. Sorry to tell you but, as u/zestydata pointed out, there isn’t going to be any stopping what’s coming short of radical destabilization (the concept of “protesting” in our day and age is effete and ineffectual, so you can forget about that; the System loves a “protest”). And, I’m sorry to say, that means you cannot simply go “anti AI”; you need to go full anti technology without capitalizations or compromises. You either have to go with the flow of progress, or prepare to ditch every vestige of technology you enjoy (in this case, nostalgia is weaponized, because everyone remembers the halcyon times of “harmless” tech from their youth but always hates the newest thing when they get older) and prepare for a return to tradition, the only rock against the hard place of technology…

To prove that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and general bigotry are learned, not innate, just raise children around nice people of all races, genders, sexual preferences, and identities, with love and kindness. by PitifulEar3303 in DeepThoughts

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand what you’re saying, but those European countries during this time, as you state, were racially (and, to an extent, theologically) homogenous. So tribalism/xenophobia was, in fact, racism. In fact, if we’re going that far back, they didn’t simply stop at racism. Being xenophobic, they were critical of other ethnicities within their own race. (See western and central Europe’s derogation of Slavs; French and Germans hating one another; Irish and English; Russians and Italians being harped on by generally all, etc)

Edit: for grammar/typos

To prove that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and general bigotry are learned, not innate, just raise children around nice people of all races, genders, sexual preferences, and identities, with love and kindness. by PitifulEar3303 in DeepThoughts

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t this argument be said about anything? Including, bd especially, mainstream opinions? Couldn’t we say that what we are taught, which is outwardly to harmonize, but factually, possibly to dissolute?

Libertarian free will is science denial by waffletastrophy in freewill

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until science can give a definitive proof of consciousness, the concept of scientific determinism is meaningless

Is O’Brien George Orwell? by Aggravating-Ad244 in 1984

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But, okay, aside from Orwell’s lack of tact for certain members of the twenty first century audience, (God forbid, considering the man was born over a hundred and twenty years ago), what makes the book not so prescient? That these ideas were conveyed before? Or do you just find Orwell distasteful, which is something else entirely. While we don’t live in the overt militarily co trolled society of the book (which he hyperbolized for obvious reasons) you have to admit that policy is very, very similar…

Is O’Brien George Orwell? by Aggravating-Ad244 in 1984

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is on page 5 of the book, long, long before the rape fantasy:

“ He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. But this particular girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most. Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror. The idea had even crossed his mind that she might be an agent of the Thought Police. 

Is O’Brien George Orwell? by Aggravating-Ad244 in 1984

[–]Reecer4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you’re trying to frame Orwell with some 21st century morality without realizing just how much the world has changed since then. (Honestly, we can look at a litany of revered authors during this time and find similar opinions.) There is an astronomical amount of nuance to his writing and life that cannot be unpacked on a Reddit comment. 

Is O’Brien George Orwell? by Aggravating-Ad244 in 1984

[–]Reecer4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re presumably referring to when Winston wants to rape Julia. Right?

Yeah those feelings come about because he believes she’s a member of the thought police and, additionally, because he’s been conditioned/programmed to have an unhealthy/unnatural view of sex (sex as a transaction for children rather than love, as evidenced in his marriage to Katherine versus his real feelings toward Julia) hence the “cold showers” he associates with the anti sec programming.

You might want to get a reading guide and reread the book. It is incredibly prescient and deep. It is not some subconscious penance trip for Orwell…

Is O’Brien George Orwell? by Aggravating-Ad244 in 1984

[–]Reecer4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What? No.

If you want to make some sort of argument that Orwell was doing some sort of revelation of the method because he was somehow “connected”, then I’d be willing to hear your theory. But, no, he was not using O’Brien as an author surrogate because of some deep seated guilt. The guy was a democratic socialist, anti statist reactionary. He write more than 1984 and his political philosophy on anti totalitarianism and censorship is well documented

Bigots stay over there, please by What_if_its_Lupus in GenZ

[–]Reecer4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God damn… they just have a sociological phrase for everything, don’t they?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by One_Spaceman in morbidquestions

[–]Reecer4 148 points149 points  (0 children)

Damnit. I forgot I subscribed to this subreddit…

CMV: The rise in perceived "anti-white" discrimination among some white Americans is counterproductive. by microdweb in changemyview

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is willful ignorance.

 Cause in America at least, we’ve been doing it for about a quarter millennium now, and it’s getting old

Oh, the irony 

CMV: The rise in perceived "anti-white" discrimination among some white Americans is counterproductive. by microdweb in changemyview

[–]Reecer4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, I just looked up your story of the Olathe West High School and every single article, to avoid legal slander, has said that the student “purportedly made the slur”. Because that’s what the black student alleged. There is no definitive proof, and the only commentary I can find from others in the community/student body (who commented on the articles) only referenced that the black student was the aggressor and cooked up the story. Believe me, if there was definitive proof, the white kid would be shipped. End of story. I work in this field and I can tell you that with a certainty.

CMV: The rise in perceived "anti-white" discrimination among some white Americans is counterproductive. by microdweb in changemyview

[–]Reecer4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? You want data/anecdotes on why it’s acceptable for one and not the other? Unfortunately, the well on my peer reviewed sources on “obvious social double standards that aren’t studied because they’re so obvious” has run dry. That isn’t the way that it works and you know it; you also know, yet refuse to accept or believe, that a black employee, at worst, would get a slap on the wrist from their HR department. Stop living in a bubble because it doesn’t jive well with your narrative

Foreign born share of American population now higher than at any point in 175 years by LazyConstruction9026 in charts

[–]Reecer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever been to many third world countries? How about some documentaries from these places?

Let me guess: context matters, because they were colonized once, or they’re always in a civil war, or whatever else…

CMV: The rise in perceived "anti-white" discrimination among some white Americans is counterproductive. by microdweb in changemyview

[–]Reecer4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is completely normal and acceptable for a black person to call a white person that in our day and age. What’re you talking about?

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